Allan R. Millett, Ph.D.

Stephen E. Ambrose Professorship

Background

Allan R. Millett, Ph.D., served thirty-seven years as a history professor at The Ohio State University (1969-2005),
Allan R. Millett came to the University of New Orleans in January 2006 to be the Ambrose
Professor of History, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies, and
Senior Military Advisor to the National World War II Museum. He has been instrumental
in establishing a military history program at UNO designed to prepare students for
employment as public historians. At Ohio State, Millett was Associate Director of
the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and General Raymond E. Mason
Professor of Military History. He directed sixty-nine doctoral dissertations to completion,
and his students have published seventy books. Millett is the co-author of a military
history of the United States now in its third edition and a history of World War II,
as well as the author of five books and forty-eight book essays and articles. For
the last twenty years, he has specialized in Korean War history, producing another
five books and seventeen essays and book chapters. He has been awarded seven prizes
for teaching and scholarship, two honorary degrees, and the 2008 Pritzker Military
Library Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He has been a Fulbright
Distinguished Visiting Professor in Korea and a senior fellow of the Korea Foundation.